Welcome to the renewed homepages of Archipictor. It almost exactly five years since I returned from Japan back to Finland and became a full-time illustrator and started my own firm, Archipictor.
Archipictor was the master illustrator in the medieval monasteries. I found out how skillful artists they were. Their attitude towards illustration is admirable. Without caring about their own discomfort they made all the magnificent illuminated manuscripts. More than anything else, they were disciplined craftsmen, fully devoted to their work. Illustrators to the core, that is.
In this blog I will inform you every time one of my illustration appears in a book, magazine, advertisement or package. I will also want to introduce some examples of a great interest of mine, illustration books. I had a blog once with a similar theme but it was sadly neglected. Now I want to bring it back to life in this format, bringing the old reviews back and of course, writing new ones. Unfortunately these reviews are mostly in Finnish but there are always pictures from the books so you can decide if it worth of buying.

The coding for making the homepages usable was done by Olli Kavén, whom I would like to thank for a work well done!